Disable the open/click tracker in SES emails

Question

When sending emails through AWS SES (via AWS REST API SendRawEmail), every email has an <img> HTML tag containing a 1x1 pixel tracker image pointing to awstrack.me.  I want to disable this feature as it is causing emails to be classed as spam, particularly with MS Defender email filtering.

I have tried creating a 'Configuration Set' with an Amazon SNS destination in the 'Event destinations' list.  I have only ticked 'Hard bounces' in the list of event types, making sure to untick 'Opens' and 'Clicks'.  Once saved, I applied the configuration set to the verified domain so that all messages sent from the domain use the rules in the configuration set.  However, any email sent from the domain still contains the tracker image.

How can I disable the tracker image permanently?

Answer

As for openings, it seems possible to send mail without using a configuration set or not to publish data in a configuration set, as described in this document.
As for the clicks, they can be made possible by setting a tag in the email.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/faqs-metrics.html

Q3. Can I omit the open tracking pixel from certain emails? There are two ways to omit the open tracking pixel from your emails. The first method is to send the email without specifying a configuration set. Alternatively, you can specify a configuration set that is not configured to publish data about open events.

Q2. Can I disable click tracking? You can disable click tracking for individual links by adding an attribute, ses:no-track, to the anchor tags in the HTML body of your email. For example, if you link to the AWS home page, a normal anchor link resembles the following:

<a href="https://aws.amazon.com">Amazon Web Services</a>

To disable click tracking for that link, modify it to resemble the following:

<a ses:no-track href="aws.amazon.com">Amazon Web Services</a>

Disable the <img> open/click tracker in SES emails

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